Governor Mike Beebe and Representative Jim Nickels                                        February 3, 2011

Arkansas Governor Bully Boy Beebe and exploding malfeasance, misfeasance in state government, accompanied by his unsavory proposal to award a $23.5 million COLA to lower-end (30,000) state employees.

 The Governor’s insolent behavior betrays every hard private sector working, taxpaying middleclass Arkansan.   Arkansas state government is a bloated parasite and under Beebe’s watch the numbers have increased by 4,000 and he just dispensed $90 million so-called “Stimulus” federal dollars printed out of thin air, to the corrupt public education system…either in unearned bonuses to teachers or giveaways to the districts.  That’s $90 million that we don’t have and the producers in our society will be burdened with the unearned largesse for decades. An honest and principled governor would have said thanks, but no thanks to the Feds. The giveaways and increases are just another vote buying scheme by Beebe and minions.  How long has it been since private sector folks who subsidize this government atrocity have received a pay raise, yet he treats government parasites as if they were an endangered species?

This is the same administration (Beebe’s) that doesn’t know the number of vehicles that state employees are wallowing around in, some with more than one vehicle, has no idea how many Billions of taxpayer dollars has been funneled into the illegal Mexican coffers, and how much those criminals who hire illegals are benefiting, while private sector middleclass Arkansans subsidize the whole criminal cabal.  Force the businesses hiring illegals to pay for their healthcare, food, education, incarceration, etc. that the illegals incur and the illegal invasion will cease when hiring stops.

The Governor said “MOST EMPLOYEES DESERVE A COST-OF-LIVING-ADJUSTMENT”…commonly referred to as a COLA.  People in the private sector are the ones who deserve a COLA, the slugs in government already receive 20% more in pay and perks than the private sector.  Shows where Beebe’s allegiances lie.  Hopefully, the legislature will separate big-time on this issue from that of the governor.

Enter HB 1013 by Rep. Jim Nickels.  Rep. Nickels introduced this bill which would allow the state Contractor’s Licensing Board to punish contractors who hire workers that are not in the U.S. legally. Kudos to Rep. Nickels.  Could this be the same Jim Nickels that introduced HB 1383, March 11, 2009 which would protect illegal workers? Of significant interest that same day it was reported that Arkansas lost 25,300 non-farm jobs.   Hopefully, Rep. Nickels is dedicated to getting HB 1013 passed.

Bruce Cross, attorney for the Associated Builders & Contractors of Arkansas, “if the bill becomes law and is enforced (?), illegal immigrants in the building industry (an open admission of law breaking) are not going to flee the state. They’re going to go into the hospitality industry, they’re going to go into manufacturing, they’re going to go everyplace else”.  And this guy is an ATTORNEY???  In other words Lawyer Cross, forget the rule of law (8 USC), let’s make an illegal buck and magnetize the state for tens of thousands more illegal, uneducated 3^rd Worlders.

Now comes Greg Crow, the well-travelled bureaucrat Administrator of the Arkansas Contractor’s License Agency.  The Agency’s website says that Crow’s mission is “to protect Arkansas citizens”.  Crow’s protection racket extends only to Tyson’s, Arkansas contractors, Chambers of Commerce, ACLU, Catholic Church, and not to be left out the Arkansas Friendship Coalition.   Crow related in March, 2009 that he was working hard to educate contractors that they were “walking on thin ice by hiring illegals.” (a huge admission) Mr. Crow, how is the education project progressing?  I think we know.

 Testifying on that same date, before the State Agencies and Governmental Affairs committee, Crow said his agency was not equipped to investigate claims of illegal workers.  Crow was then and now either ignorant of his sworn obligations or is a prevaricator.  In 2009 he had 5 agents and was not required to investigate or arrest illegals.  Those agents were to frequent job sites and determine if there were non-English speaking Mexicans and OTM’s.  If non-English speaking individuals were present on the job site they simply call ICE, ASP, the Sheriff, or any other law enforcement agency.  (8 USC)

During that particular hearing Russell Gunter, an attorney representing The Arkansas Society for Human Resource Management (a Marxist operation) stated that E-Verify has a 10-20% inaccuracy rate.  E-Verify has a 99% accuracy rate, according to the federal government.  If E-Verify did in fact have only a 20% fail rate, it would still be 80% more in identification than we have now.

During that same time frame there was a political commercial that ran on a number of Arkansas radio stations which implored citizens to call Greg Crow of the Arkansas Contractors License Board to report any non-English speaking individuals at worksites.  Numerous calls were made immediately and after a few days the phone number went dead. I personally made a call to the Ark. Contractor’s License Board March 15, 2009 at 1:55 pm; a woman answered the phone and reacted with hostility when I told her I wanted to report a contractor who appears to be hiring illegal Mexicans. This was followed by some harsh statements. Crow was instructed not to take calls from citizens reporting contractors hiring/exploiting illegals.   At that juncture Crow called Little Rock radio station KARN to silence the spot and wanted to know who was paying for the spots.  KARN informed Crow they did not censor nor divulge contractual obligations.  Again, Crows agents need only to verify.

I implemented the NASCAR rule, also March 12, 2009, (arkansasfreedom.net)  which demanded the Governor, Attorney General and each member of the Ark. House & Senate that were violating the rule of law by supporting the illegal Mexican and OTM invasions; wear NASCAR look-alike uniforms so that we citizens may readily identify their sponsoring sources of corruption.  Some of the patches would of course be Tyson’s, Wal-Mart, Stephens, Arvest, Chambers of Commerce, the Huckabee Mexican Consulate, the Arkansas Friendship Coalition, LULAC, ACLU, ACORN, Contractors…to name a few.

Consider the following words of Communism’s father Karl Marx written in 1867.  “Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more of expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until they’re debt becomes unbearable.  The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalized, and the State will have to take the road which will eventually lead to Communism.”

Observe:  is this not where we are today?

Greg Crow’s protection racket is spewing the same hyperbole that he did in 2009.  If he doesn’t have the resolve and the honesty to do the job, adios and good riddance. 

It is the rule of law, in this case 8 USC, American jobs, and sovereignty, the foundation of our Republic and must be protected at all costs.

Kindest regards,

Joe McCutchen